1 Corinthians 7:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁰ Let each man abide in that calling wherein he was called.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Everyone should remain after God calls him in the station or condition of life in which the summons found him.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Let each man abide in that calling wherein he was called.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Each person should stay in the situation they were in when they were called.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Let each and every one remain in the same calling to which he was called.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ Let every man abide in the same calling in which he was called.

1 Corinthians 7:20 Cross References

Proverbs 27:8

As a bird that wandereth from her nest, So is a man that wandereth from his place.

1 Corinthians 7:17

Only, as the Lord hath distributed to each man, as God hath called each, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all the churches.

1 Corinthians 7:27

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;

2 Thessalonians 3:12

Now them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.